Mammon shata biography definition
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Mamman Shata
Nigerian singer (Hausa)
For the politician named Shata, see Mohammed Shata.
Musical artist
Alhaji (Dr) Mamman ShatapronunciationⓘMON (born in 1923 in Musawa, Katsina State, Nigeria, died on 18 June 1999) was a Nigerian singer.[1][2][3][4][5]
He was a well-known griot/musician among the Hausa people of West Africa. His vocals were often accompanied by talking drums, known as kalangu. He mostly performed for the people of nordlig Nigeria, primarily in the Hausa language, for more than half a century.[6]
Early life
[edit]Mamman Shata was born to a family of Fulani tribe. His mother, Lariya, was a Fulata-Borno, the Fulani people who migrated from the Borno Empire after the Fulani Jihad of 1804 and settled in parts of Hausaland. She was born in Tofa town in the Kano Emirate and met Shata's father, Ibrahim Yaro, when she went to visit a relative in Musawa. Subsequently, they got married. Lariya had a
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SHATTA, Mamman
Musician, Philosopher and Social Reformer by(Olumide lyanda). Kalangu music exponent, Alhaji (Dr.) Mamman Shatta was the biggest musician that ever came from the northern part of Nigeria. Everybody north of the Niger would like to be able to sing like him, which shows how popular his music was. While it may not be accurate to say that he invented the popular Kalangu music, it is safe to say that he brought it to its present level of international recognition. He took the music outside the shores of Nigeria, as far as to Europe and a large part of the Arab world. His music was en joyed both by the ordinary people and the highly placed. If Shatta did not sing in praise of somebody, or perform at his party (that is, in the northern part of Nigeria), that person, no matter who he was, was regarded as a nobody. Mamman Shatta did not take just the high or the low road to success he took all roads. Bom at Musawa Village, in Musawa Local Government Area of present Katsina S
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Twenty years ago, the music industry lost a gem- Mamman Shata. Shata was a well-known musician among the Hausa people of West Africa and even non-Hausa speakers.
Alhaji Shata suffered a debilitating illness that made him to be hospitalised in Kano and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After some relief following an operation on his urethra in Jeddah, he was hospitalised in the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, where he died on Friday, 18th June, 1999.
He was survived by three wives (Furera, Hadiza, and Binta), 19 children, and 28 grandchildren. He was buried that day in Daura, the city of his benefactor, Emir Muhammadu Bashar, who attended the funeral.
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Alhaji (Dr) Mamman Shata was born in 1923 in Musawa, Katsina State, Nigeria.
Mamman Shata’s mother, Lariya, was of the Fulani ethnic stock known as Fulata-Borno, the Fulani people who migrated from the Borno Empire after the Fulani Jihad of 1804 and sett